“Tips on How You Can Save on Your Printer Ink Cartridges”

Buying a printer is a one time cost but ink cartridges are needed to be bought on a regular basis (that's why the printers are so inexpensive). If you consume your ink cartridges wisely you can save lots of money on replacement cartridges - just follow our recommendations for maximum savings:

Print what is only necessary

When we are doing some printouts most of the time we end up making unnecessary printouts and in the process we waste some precious ink. Let’s say, you just need to print only a small portion of a web page, Instead of printing the whole page complete with its heavy graphics etc, be specific on what you need and print only that portion.

Remember, text always consumes less ink compared to graphics or images. If the text information is all that you need then make sure that you don’t print the graphics. If it is a web page you need to save in a printed form, check for its print version. If there is no print version, you can copy and paste the text in a word document or a notepad or wordpad or any text any text editor and take a printout of that.

Do a print preview

Most branded printers such as HP, Canon, Dell, Epson or any other printer come with a printer driver which has a very useful print preview function. With this function, you can have a prior preview of the copy you want to take a print out of.

This function is especially handy when you are directly taking the print out from the Internet. At times, what you see on a site is totally different as compared to the printed version. A quick preview can help to get the printout of the material that you specifically want.

Turn off your printer properly

The same as you switch off your computer without properly shutting it down also applies to your printer. If you don’t shutdown your printer properly, the print heads will remain directly exposed to air causing the ink to dry in the nozzles which, in turn, could affect the quality of printing adversely. Always check the position of your printer print heads before turning off it’s power.

Use printer ink cartridges smartly

If you don’t print regularly,it is important to run a small printing test at least once a week. It’s purpose is to avoid the ink cartridges from drying up. This little precaution will help you to increase the life of the cartridge.

Never expose your printer to extreme temperatures

Too much variation in room temperature is bad for your printer ink cartridges. Avoid storing your printer in too hot or too cold a temperature as the cartridges can dry up. To make your printer cartridges last longer, make sure the room has a normal and stable temperature.

Following these small but important tips, your printer ink cartridges will get a longer life.”

Our Primary Goal at Mr. Ink Plus is to SAVE YOU MONEY on using your inkjet or laser printer unlike other stores that may suggest you purchase printers that have less capacity so they can sell you more ink costing you hundreds of dollars in a long run. As many of our long time customers do please call us for the printers we recommend for Maximum Ink Savings. We do not sell any printers but we can lead you in the right direction to stores that have printers that could save you lots of money!

Tech Box on OC16 TV

If you have never seen or missed some of our "Ink Saving Tips" segments on OC16's Tech Box or please visit our YouTube link to see past episodes of our tips. Be sure to scroll the Youtube site for all of our ink savings tip reviews.

As always please feel free to call us at Mr. Ink Plus at 526-2465 for any other ink savings questions you may have.